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During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star.
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John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
Our star will eventually become a red giant and then collapse into a white dwarf billions of years from now.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
As material builds up, the gravitational force grows, causing the pressure inside a white dwarf to grow, too.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024
Novas occur in systems with a large, hydrogen-rich star, with a nearby white dwarf in orbit.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
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John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
Our star will eventually become a red giant and then collapse into a white dwarf billions of years from now.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
As material builds up, the gravitational force grows, causing the pressure inside a white dwarf to grow, too.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024
Novas occur in systems with a large, hydrogen-rich star, with a nearby white dwarf in orbit.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
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The group calculated that approximately one in three gravitational waves of the right sort (neutron star collisions work best since their mergers last longer than black hole mergers) would make the bar ring with one quantum unit of energy.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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These systems are made up of the black hole and a secondary object like a star, much denser neutron star, or another black hole.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
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An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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Using these variable stars, scientists can measure the distances to galaxies up to about 100 million light-years from us.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
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This galactic speed demon appears to have a red dwarf star smaller and dimmer than our sun.Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2024
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The smallest red dwarfs, with masses barely bigger than a tenth of the mass of the Sun, can burn for trillions of years.Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
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But the other system isn’t a perfect mirror of our Solar System—a brown dwarf also orbiting the star may have played a part in the Earth-like planet’s survival, experts tell The New York Times.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Some theories say brown dwarf pairs were seeded from the materials that surround a forming star.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Do not conscript them into your game of high-speed moving variables.James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The 2020 election showed that there were aspects of Trump’s support that could not be fully accounted for with the demographic variables that pollsters had come to rely on.Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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